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McCanns to appear on Oprah show
Kate and Gerry McCann are to appear on Oprah as they widen their search for their missing daughter Madeleine to America. The McCanns will fly to Chicago
next week to record the interview with Oprah Winfrey, marking the second anniversary of her disappearance from the Praia da Luz resort in... [continued]
People: Madeleine McCann's father rounds on press 
Phil Spector starts his 18-year jail sentence
On his arrival at the Twin Towers correctional facility in Los Angeles on Monday, Phil Spector was immediately subjected to a strip search before being issued with his prison clothes
and being shown to a special section of the jail where the most high-profile prisoners are locked up. Previous occupants... [continued]
Phil Spector found guilty of murdering Lana Clarkson
Funny, entertaining and also chilling: my encounter with Phil Spector
Conrad Black begins his prison sentence
Michael Jackson auction cancelled
A major auction of Michael Jackson's possessions has been cancelled at short notice after the singer's production company, MJJ Productions, filed a law suit against Julien's auction
house in California. As many as 1,400 items taken from the debt-ridden singer's famous Neverland ranch were due to be sold next week,... [continued]
Michael Jackson plans to ride an elephant in the O2 arena
Jacko hits London
Gustavo Dudamel takes London by storm
Classical music critics have applauded the first performance of a five-day residency by Venezuela's Simón Bólivar youth orchestra and its wunderkind conductor, 28-year-old Gustavo
Dudamel, at London's Royal Festival Hall. The orchestra, whose 180 members have been plucked from impoverished and crime-ridden barrios to play in the world's top... [continued]
Rattle plays down orchestra revolt
Scarlett Johansson denies extreme diet
Scarlett Johansson has denied "binge dieting" in order to win the role of a latex-clad Black Widow opposite Robert Downey Jr in Iron Man 2. Writing on the
Huffington Post, the actress attacked "the irresponsibility of the tabloid media who sell the public ideas about what we should look like... [continued]
The Skinny: Scarlett Johansson's Huffington Post article in full
In Town: Scarlett launched as the face of Moet
French stuntman Philippe Petit goes legit in Manhattan
Buoyed by the success of Man on Wire, the documentary about his unannounced tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974, French stuntman Philippe Petit is planning
another daredevil act in New York. Still only a sprightly 59, and still honing his balance on a practice wire for three... [continued]
Film review: Man on Wire
Singer Nadja Benaissa arrested over HIV
A member of Germany's most successful all-girl band, No Angels, has been arrested on suspicion of infecting a partner with HIV. Nadja Benaissa, 26, is accused of having unprotected sex with three men in 2004 and 2006, knowing that she was HIV positive. One of the three men is now... [continued]
